- PRESS RELEASE: World Asthma Day 2017
- Asthma patients ask for real commitment for healthy air indoors and outdoors Brussels, 2nd May 2017, WORLD ASTHMA DAY – Air pollution is unhealthy. While 10 times more people are killed by air pollu ...
- Energy efficient buildings should be good for health
- On the 30th of Mach, EFA Deputy Director Roberta Savli presented on Uncompromised ambient air quality in resource-efficient buildings at the Globe EU debate on Healthy and Resource Efficient Buildings ...
- How to communicate health risks of air pollution? Our views at WHO meeting
- In February we were invited to a close round table organised by the World Health Organisation European division in Bonn on the “Software AirQ+ for the assessment of the health risks of air pollution: ...
- Third year of scent sensitivity campaign in Finland
- EFA Member the Finnish Allergy and Asthma Federation organized its scent sensitivity campaign for the third time last November attracting media attention and visibility to the problem of fragrances. ...
- Guide on indoor air quality to identify mold and dampness at home
- Material: Guide for lung disease patients cope with oxygen treatment at home Original name: Sisäilmaopas and Guide om inneluft Author: The Organisation for Respiratory Health in Finland ...
- Energy efficient buildings, indoor air quality and people with respiratory diseases
- People spend 90% of their time in indoor spaces so everyone is affected by poor air quality and pollution, but this has more negative effects for people with asthma, allergy and COPD as they are the f ...
- EFA Environmental Determinants expert network
- On the 15th of April, EFA Environmental Determinants Working Group hold a teleconference to discuss EFA future activities and priorities around the topic. In particular, the results of the survey to m ...
- Perfume free: new national campaign by Nordic patients
- In October EFA Member Finnish Allergy and Asthma Federation will launch it's perfume free week, a campaign shared with other nordic sister associations in Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. T ...
- Poor air quality in European schools
- Children are exposed to poor indoor environments in schools in many countries in the WHO European Region, with issues including stuffy air, dampness and mould, uncomfortable temperatures and poorly fu ...
- World leaders adopt the first ever resolution on air pollution and health
- On the 18th-26th of May, world health leaders gathered in Geneva for the 68thsession of the World Health Assembly (WHA). Delegates at the World Health Assembly adopted a resolution to address the heal ...
- EFA Members news (April 2015)
- This month patients associations have mobilized at national level through a wide variety of activities to raise awareness about allergy (UK), indoor air quality in schools (Sweden), asthma (Finland), ...
- Linking air pollution and health
- In April EFA participated at the 18th meeting of the WHO Task Force on Health Effects of Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution, a sharing platform that advices the United Nations Economic Commission ...
- EFA in events (March 2015)
- Much new evidence of interest for allergy, asthma and COPD patients was published in March. We attended the launch of the EMA 20th years anniversary, the Roadmap for sustainable care, the EEA State of ...
- EU Policy update (November 2014)
- European Commission structural changes affecting public health The new European Commission has started its work as from the 1st November launching the final decision on the organisation of responsib ...
- Enabling Air Travel with Oxygen in Europe Booklet
- EFA Booklet: Stop discrimination against patients on board aircrafts! For patients requiring oxygen on board planes, an ordinary flight can turn into a nightmare. The rules and prices reg ...
- Policy update (March 2013)
- The European Health Report 2012 The European Health report 2012 describing the overall improvements in health in the WHO European region has now been made available on-line. The general report, publ ...
- EU Policy update (February 2013)
- Policy Round-Up The results of the HealthVent project were presented at the European Parliament (see article above) and the European Commission was requested to issue a Green Paper on indoor air qua ...
- HealthVent Guidelines
- HealthVent event at the European Parliament – Health-based ventilation guidelines for Europe On 20 February 2013 EFA organised an event in the European Parliament at which the HealthVent project con ...
- HealthVent to be presented at the European Parliament
- MEP Catherine Stihler is presenting the results of the HealthVent project during an event in the European Parliament in Brussels. The project, which began in 2010, ...
- HealthVent guidelines to be presented at European Parliament event
- On the 20th of February from 18.00 to 20.30, MEP Catherine Stihler will host an event in the European Parliament in Brussels to present the results of the HealthVent project. The project, which began ...